{"id":48063,"date":"2011-12-22T13:27:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T11:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=48063"},"modified":"2014-01-06T23:02:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T21:02:04","slug":"cellist-efe-baltacigil-pianist-amy-yang-perform-as-part-of-embassy-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/12\/22\/cellist-efe-baltacigil-pianist-amy-yang-perform-as-part-of-embassy-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Cellist Efe Baltacigil, pianist Amy Yang perform as part of Embassy Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Cecelia Porter, Published: December 19<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48065\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48065\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48065\" title=\"_MG_1594\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/MG_1594.jpg\" alt=\"(Balazs Borocz) - Amy Yang\" width=\"296\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/MG_1594.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/MG_1594-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Balazs Borocz) - Amy Yang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Istanbul-born cellist Efe Baltacigil and pianist Amy Yang played at the Turkish ambassador\u2019s residence Friday. The concert, co-sponsored by the Embassy Series, highlighted two iconic sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven: Op. 5, No. 1, in F and Op. 102, No. 2, in D. The musicians\u2019 informed yet personal approach to this music beautifully underlined the composer\u2019s groundbreaking liberation of the cello from its traditional supportive role \u2014 as in the Op. 5 \u2014 to its emerging reciprocal partnership with the piano \u2014 as in the Op. 102.<\/p>\n<p>Baltacigil, the newly appointed principal cellist of the Seattle Symphony, combines an intense, gorgeous tone with a broad palette of timbres. In Op. 5, these qualities were carefully subdued to a quiet intimacy in accordance with the piano\u2019s prominence. (Beethoven was a celebrated pianist himself.) Yang underscore dher command of the keyboard in music demanding the titanic power of the composer\u2019s \u201cHammerklavier\u201d sonata while exhibiting Op. 5\u2019s full range of technical pizzazz and fluid scale passages. This was all the more remarkable because the pianist had to deal with a small, out-of-tune Steinway that lacked resonance. Particularly in the Op. 5 finale, the cellist met Beethoven\u2019s playful presto temperament with a boldly impulsive bow matched by Yang\u2019s incisive phrasing.<\/p>\n<p>In Op. 102, the cello comes into its own against the piano. This was especially evident in the adagio, where Baltacigil missed no chance for sonorous passion to match Yang\u2019s depth of expression.<\/p>\n<p>Programmed between the Beethoven pieces, Maurice Ravel\u2019s \u201cHabanera\u201d resonated with a tangy Iberian rhythmic pulse, and Antonin Dvorak\u2019s \u201cSilent Woods\u201d was nicely done, with both players maintaining a marvelous legato from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>Porter is a freelance writer.<\/p>\n<p>via Cellist Efe Baltacigil, pianist Amy Yang perform as part of Embassy Series &#8211; The Washington Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cecelia Porter, Published: December 19 Istanbul-born cellist Efe Baltacigil and pianist Amy Yang played at the Turkish ambassador\u2019s residence Friday. The concert, co-sponsored by the Embassy Series, highlighted two iconic sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven: Op. 5, No. 1, in F and Op. 102, No. 2, in D. 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